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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

My trip to Ohio in 2011, which I posted about on my Solomon Goss Blog had some interesting challenges and one of those was going from Columbus up to the northern part of Franklin County to find the Kempton Cemetery and I almost missed it.

On my Solomon Goss of Fearing Twp. In Ohio blog I have written a series of posts about the Delano family and its connection to mine. I start with the February 12, 2014 post titled: Daniel's In-Laws John and Mary (Delano) Keller a connection to DAR and to the "Fortune." I end with the post dated April 20, 2014 titled "Stephen Delano's Lineage to Phillip Delano." There are about 9 posts. There is some repeating of information but a lot more detail and I want to mention I am not an expert on Mayflower lineages so if you find a mistake just let me know and I will be happy to update and correct. http://sgossfamily.wordpress.com/

Kempton is a tiny cemetery set on a small hill on the corner where an apartment complex is located. Fortunately because of the hill people are less prone to walk through it casually. Unfortunately, it is pretty old and damaged and there are a lot of broken and missing stones.

I could barely read the stones and I walked and walked trying to find one particular stone, Oliver Delano, brother to my Stephen Delano. I never found it. However it was there because it has been transcribed and I found two publications with the information for this cemetery. The writing on some of the stones was so soft it was hard to make out and even using my finger to trace the letters didn't help. I was also loosing the light.

Source: Volume IV Franklin County, Ohio Cemeteries, Washington, Clinton, Montgomery and Brown Townships, Compiled by the Franklin County Genealogical Society, September 1983. FHBook#977.156 V39 V.6 There are maps of the township and give locations of the cemeteries. They list the following cemeteries for Clinton Twp. There is more detail in this book but here is the general state of things in 1983. The main Columbus library had these books.

Armbruster M.E. Church Cemetery - no evidence of it now, gone.

Clinton Chapel (Old M.E. Church) Cemetery - no evidence of it now.

Cooke Cemetery - property sold stones may have been moved.

McKendree Methodist Church Cemetery earliest stone 1831, many missing

Kempton Cemetery very poor condition.

Union Cemetery the oldest started in 1806 still used and in good condition.

Source: Roster of graves in Kempton Cemetery, Clinton Twp., Franklin Co., Ohio, 1961, prepared by Mr.s J. Boyd Davis, DAR Whetstone Chapter (Ohio), FHL#1320838 Item 3). Copied from the tombstone records in 1933 by a Mrs. John J. Rings. It is not done in alphabetical order so but it is hard to say if it is by rows. There are 62 burials listed.

There is a website of Franklin County, Ohio Gravestones &c. They feature Kempton Cemetery, Columbus, Clinton Twp., Franklin Co., Ohio. If a name is underlined you can download the photo. Oliver is not underlined. If you scroll down you will see a long list of unknown stones with photos. Very well done website.

The Kempton Cemetery is located at the corner of Knightsbridge Blvd. and Olentangy River Rd. I headed out of Columbus, Ohio and up N. High St. left on W. Lane St. across the Olentangy River to Olentangy Road. Yeah, yeah, I didn't take Hwy 315, more fun sometimes to dally. It didn't take that long to get there.

Oliver Delano Jan. 1822 38 years Kempton Cemetery, Franklin Co., Ohio

Unfortunately I have not been able to find any evidence of Delano burials in Franklin County for Oliver's parents Stephen Delano & Mary Shaw nor of his brother Stephen Delano (Jr.) who was found murdered in 1818 and I have just recently posted about that on the Solomon Goss blog. I cannot find where Oliver's wife Esther is buried. Worthington is in Sharon Twp. north of Clinton so if they died there, then the cemetery records of Sharon Twp. would be of importance but I have not found them there either and there are a lot of missing records.

Things to Ponder!

The header photo is of the Lee Cemetery in Hardin Co., Ohio southeast of Kenton, Ohio.

As of today 8/12/2016 Google has closed down Picasa for Photos. They moved them to Google Photos and Google Photo Archive. If there are any problem with my photos from this blog give me a holler and I will check it out. When posting in Blogger the photos went into Picasa for safekeeping it doesn't work that way at Wordpress. I did not move BJM Cemeteries to Wordpress so this is why I am concerned. So far so Good. Thanks. Let me know if there is a problem with any of the photos. Thanks.

As a member of Find A Grave I have been adding photos and memorials and getting some transferred to me and trying to spend a couple hours each week adding to the website. Scroll to the bottom of this blog and you will find a link to my contributions on Find A Grave.

Here are my tips:

I find Find A Grave is really good for finding tombstones and memorials for those buried in the USA. Canada is making progress in adding to Find A Grave but you also have to go to other websites in your search. These websites are the Canadian Headstones.com, OCFA - Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, the Canadian Gen Webs Cemetery project are few places to look. Each province may have a way to locate cemeteries. Hopefully I have identified these websites in my posts but be aware they do change their urls.